Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:54:16 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
       Spam <spam@tnonline.net>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
       Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>,
       Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
       Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>,
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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Hi!

> > Thats how you get yourself a non useful OS. Fix it in a library and
> > share it between the apps that care. Like say.. gnome-vfs2
> 
> Even KIOslave has  it. They even support sftp and  stuff just by using
> shared files  in /tmp in reality.  That's a much  saner interface than
> doing it all in the kernel.
> 
> I  mean,  the  kernel  is  supposed  to support  access  to  the  disk
> drives. Who says that it's got  to be the uppermost VFS level? You can
> be perfectly happy to build your own  VFS on top of it (or use other's
> implementations, that is.)

You can not reasonably do caching when you are in shared library. And
you can not do caching across users at all.

								Pavel
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